The Saint Kitts & Nevis Citizenship by Investment Programme’s Hurricane Relief Fund (HRF) option – which closed in March after six months of operation – has funded, among other things, the restoration of some 900 homes damaged by last year’s hurricanes, according to the Kittitian government. Prime Minister Timothy Harris said his administration had so

This article was contributed by regular columnist Stephane Tajick. For more articles by Stephane, see the “Tajick’s Take” column. The principal offering of any citizenship by investment program (CIP) is access to EU member states, be it visa-free travel within the Schengen area or the right of settlement in European countries. Since the source of

Prime Minister Harris of Saint Kitts & Nevis earlier this week declared the Saint Kitts & Nevis’ limited time offer of US$150,000 contributions to the Hurricane Relief Fund (HRF) as a means of qualifying for the country’s citizenship by investment program a “largely successful” measure. But as the discount window draws to a close (formally ending

Sam Raphael, the entrepreneur behind Dominica’s Jungle Bay development, a man who has been involved in Caribbean citizenship by investment for more than two decades, cautions that if Caribbean leaders don’t get together “sooner rather than later” to agree on a price floor for their CIPs, the result could be an all-out price war depriving the

Head of the Saint Kitts & Nevis Citizenship by Investment Unit, Les Khan, maintains that his country has not and will not be engaged in a “race to the bottom”, despite recently introducing the Hurricane Relief Fund contribution option, which critics say undercuts prevailing market prices in the Caribbean. “We originally set a price that